Peter Beinart teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, an MSNBC political commentator, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is also a nonfiction author and former Rhodes Scholar.
His first book, The Good Fight, was published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2006. His second book, The Icarus Syndrome, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. His third book, The Crisis of Zionism, was published by Times Books in 2012.
Beinart has written for The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, the Financial Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, Slate, the Forward, Reader’s Digest, Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Polity, the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association. The Week magazine named him columnist of the year for 2004. In 2005, he gave the Theodore H. White lecture at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
He has appeared on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” “Charlie Rose,” “Meet the Press,” “The Colbert Report,” and many other television programs.
Beinart graduated from Yale University, winning a Rhodes scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University. After graduating from University College, Oxford, Beinart became The New Republic’s managing editor in 1995. He became senior editor in 1997 and from 1999 to 2006 served as the magazine’s editor.